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2004 227
- This blog has moved... notice #2...
- This blog has moved...
- Has anyone tried migrating posts from weblogs.asp.net to another .Text installation?
- Wes Haggard discusses the new iterators in C# 2.0
- The email I get...
- C# 2005 and C# Express Content Up...
- Another article preview up... this one is a content rotator for ASP.NET
- vbCity has blogs!?!? Excellent...
- Removing Word's Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps...
- I'm thinking about installing .Text into my own web-site...
- The Updater Application Block... various additions...
- Soma discusses the future of VB
- Ok... I can finally read my comments again...
- Previews of articles...
- Jesse Liberty, author of one of my favorite books (Clouds to Code) gives an overview of "My" in Visual Basic 2005
- Updated the headlines on the VB Community page today...
- Anders on MSDNTV
- New Coding 4 Fun Article up...
- With things like AOL and other proxies... how useful is IP Address in figuring out duplicate votes/comments/etc... ?
- Trying out something 'bad'...
- I'm thinking of adding login/registration to my personal site...
- Solutions at a Glance... great for all .NET developers interested in security...
- ReSharper 1.0 Released...
- Thanks Bill... Vaughn that is, not that other guy...
- Don't ask me why, but I've become the official forum for Spiderman 2
- Previewing my "Quick Vote" article...
- Books, Books, Books...
- We have a bit of a cluster in my poll results...
- Stuck on a problem opening vbproj or csproj files...
- Getting the right Printer Margin Bounds when working in Windows Forms...
- Robert gives up an update on the VB.NET Power Pack
- Partial types in Visual Basic .NET
- Partial types in Visual Basic .NET
- Cool Quote from the "My" chat going on right now...
- Default Values, Triggers, and Code supplied values ... oh my!
- "Express Paint" article up...
- New Poll is up and a silly mistake...
- Andrew Troelsen's Refactoring Article is up...
- Get a listing of all the upcoming VB Chats
- Generics in VB 2005 Article now live on MSDN...
- Going on now... chat with the VB and ASP teams about building Web Forms with VB.NET 2003
- Webcast today on the new features of VB 2005...
- Cool new MSDN TV (on creating a RSS reader that runs as a tool window in VS)
- Luke Hoban blogs on...
- My new Coding 4 Fun Column is up on MSDN...
- Another new article posted yesterday... "What's New In Help for VB 2005"
- Operator Overloading in VB 2005
- Spiderman 2... the game, not the movie...
- Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and the Express Edition Betas have launched...
- Eric Gunnerson discusses grouping classes within an assembly...
- Oh man... I guess this isn't new, but I'm impressed...
- New Community Page for your viewing pleasure...
- A sneak preview of Visual Basic 2005 (article) is up on MSDN...
- Just saw a concert... already have the live CD...
- Today's Team Chat (Thursday 6/24 at 1pm Pacific Time) has been cancelled
- Andy Pennell and Scott Nonnenberg are looking for your opinion...
- Replaced the Poll Component with my 'new and improved' one...
- Ended the "Most anticipated release" poll...
- Mark Davis discusses a C# feature....
- Visual Basic Power Pack Article Up on MSDN
- My MSDN Magazine article is up online...
- C# TechEd Page started...
- Ach... my reading list is growing too fast...
- TechEd Slides working their way online...
- I just like to make things complicated...
- 'Using' statement added to VB in Whidbey release...
- If you write RFPs to get work...
- More playing with ASP.NET
- Updated the 'blogs' page on msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic
- Very Very Cool... 3D Pie Chart in C#
- A love little samples like this...
- Celebrities in the locker room... career opportunity or creepy awkwardness?
- I added the "no vote, just show me the results" feature to that polling component...
- Draft posts... what should they display for 'date posted'?
- I'm playing around a bit...
- Outlook programming article now available...
- Greggm describes how to debug ASP.NET as a non-admin...
- Whidbey docs up on MSDN's lab servers...
- Paul Vick discusses Nullable Types in the Whidbey release of Visual Basic
- Early & Adopter fill you in on "Application Level Events"
- Paul is looking for a list of the 'best' VB Bloggers...
- Paul Vick discusses the question that just won't go away... VB or C#?
- Visual Basic at the Movies now available for download...
- Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...
- The 'Chalk Talk' went well....
- Anders Chalk Talk today at 2pm to 3:15pm (at TechEd 2004)
- Contents of a programmer's backpack
- Paul Vick is in the house....
- New IIS site...
- At TechEd and waiting for your questions!
- TechEd and Rio... IV?
- The mind boggles...
- Coming to TechEd? Play Halo for the PC? Have a fast laptop?
- 101 VB.NET 2003 Videos Released onto MSDN
- Visual Basic Team Blog has launched...
- So many posts in so little time...
- SteveJS discusses unmanaged/managed and mixed debugging in VS
- Eric posts the C# Team's schedule for TechEd 2004
- Going way back here... but I don't think I mentioned this before.... Gus Perez posts a Snippet Editor...
- Enabling/Disabling AutoRun from your .NET application...
- Duncan's VS.NET 2003 wouldn't run... and why that is good for you :)
- Eric Gunnerson discusses Enums, Validation and Versioning...
- Profiling is fun...
- Grant discusses Iterators...
- New 'Diary of a .NET Newbie' column up at vbCity.com
- If video is your thing...
- Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...
- PInvokes available as a VS.NET Add-In...
- Some FAQs are more FA than others....
- Eric is asking questions again...
- New VS2005 focused MSDN TV episodes available...
- RSS Aggregator add-in for Visual Studio .NET
- Eric Gunnerson on Channel 9...
- Jay discusses the use of partial classes in Windows Forms 2.0
- I know that movies based on books are often a disappointment...
- Visual Basic At The Movies now available...
- Presentation from Francesco Balena on Data Structures for VB Programmers
- Ok, if you are programming against AD... this is so very cool...
- Eric is looking for your opinion on C# related blogs...
- Gregg Miskelly covers some more debugging options...
- My MSDN Magazine article is up on the MSDN site...
- Matt Warren discusses ObjectSpaces and ORM in general
- Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET
- Somewhere inside me... an audiophile just died.
- pinvoke.net ... a place to post and find all the Win32 API signatures you need ...
- Upcoming Visual Basic .NET Chats
- Scott Nonnenberg on Debugger Visualizers in VS 2005
- ASP.NET (with C#) article by Dino Esposito...
- I've started up a Blog for Frequently Asked Questions about VB.NET
- Hey Scott Seely is blogging!!
- C# Featurette #3 from Eric Gunnerson
- Grant points out a very unknown configuration option for version numbers...
- Upcoming Dates/Locations on the Visual Basic World Tour
- Eric covers another new C# Whidbey (VS 2005) feature
- VS 2005 has a blog?
- Developing a Windows Forms Wizard...
- Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents
- Are you a student looking for VS.NET?
- Jay Bazuzi discusses the 'Rename' Refactoring in some detail...
- Part 6 of Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures is now live...
- MVP Blogs
- Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML...
- Great VB6 content at DevX
- Upcoming webcast on Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Visual Studio Service Pack 6 Released
- Back from Disneyland...
- Joe Nalewabau discusses TechEd 2004
- Going back a bit... Rick Spencer talks about the Usability of Generics...
- Generic Methods...
- Paul Vick, Language Designer on the VB team, discusses arrays with non-zero lower bounds...
- Weird Gathering of MSDNers at theme parks...
- Tried the "new" Napster tonight...
- Two new additions to my blog home page...
- Eric Gunnerson just keep pumping out the cool posts...
- Interested in learning more about Visual Studio Tools for Office?
- Wow, a huge FAQ for System.Web.Mail...
- There's nothing like a nice control to make development easier...
- Shaykat's Visual Studio 2003 Tips
- Team Chat on Unit Testing coming up next Thursday (3/18)
- Some cool controls from DarthPedro
- hey... want to come work at MSDN?
- "Blogs from the C# Team" page now up... enjoy!
- The eagerly awaited Part 5 of Scott Mitchell's Data Structure series is now live
- Have you seen Joe Hummel's webcasts yet?
- Debugging Guide now available
- Anson Horton starts his blog with talk of Intellisense
- C# Team Blogs as OPML
- Neat little utility (with C# source) that copies and pastes files from the command line
- Matt Warren on Language Design
- New MSDE Articles Available
- Scott Nonnenberg dishes on Visualizers in Whidbey
- Grant Richins discusses Anonymous Methods
- Gregg Miskelly on Debugging Interop Issues
- The CSharp Team has a "Frequently Asked Question" Blog...
- Looking to write for MSDN?
- Frequently Asked Questions, or Frequently Requested Code (FRC?)
- Paul Vick on two new operators in VB Whidbey
- Code Project just continues to amaze...
- A chapter from my KickStart VB.NET book is up on Code Project
- MSDN TV episode on the IDE enhancements in C# Whidbey
- ASP.NET Resource Kit now available
- Oh geez... now I'm all hot and bothered
- Broderbund Software... and C#
- Great article on the DataGrid control posted on CodeProject
- 12 free sample training modules about .NET
- Just playing with Generics in Visual Basic Whidbey
- Joel's doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)
- Ninja Gaiden, where art thou Ninja Gaiden
- Robert Green's VB Blog
- C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet
- Finally, the good ones coming to DVD
- Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those...
- New installment in Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures
- HTML Agility Pack
- TreeMapping Your File System
- Yet Another Amazing Article from MSDN België & Luxemburg
- Allegiance Code now available....
- 8-Part Interview with Anders Hejlsberg
- Upcoming Visual Basic Chats
- Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 beta
- David Hill explains and discusses "Smart Clients"
- DirectX Drum Machine in C#
- Eric Gunnerson discusses Inlining
- Some recent articles on C# Whidbey
- I love apps that get updates
- Managed code samples from the Exchange SDK
- Printing a text file
- Modern Software Development in Visual Basic .NET
- The C# team is going to be coming after me...
- Virus Alert
- Win32 API to .NET Framework mapping
- New Visual Basic home page design live...
- Just a quick reminder, VB6 upgrade chat tomorrow
- Data Access and Storage Developer Center now up...
- Multi MSDN Multimedia
- New RSS Aggregator
- Short but sweet little example from today's .NET Wire
- CLR SPY
- Application Interop (.NET and J2EE)
- Pretty cool new Webcast series coming for VB.NET
- More on that Halo Armor
- Update to the How-To for the Updater Application Block
- Another interesting product from Roku
- Animated Gifs in .NET
- This would make a great halloween costume...
- Back in Redmond
- Digital Media and Media Center Topics
2003 188
- Bandwidth Drought
- New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN
- SharpToolbox
- Playing around
- New MSDN TV 'episode' on FxCop
- Comp Sci is cool
- Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads
- C# Books Page Up
- Windows Forms Reference Application
- New *Free* Windows Forms Controls
- My latest book is now available online
- Halo for the PC
- A flexible line graph class library in C#
- Visual C# "Whidbey": Language Enhancements
- New Article up on the Visual Basic developer center...
- Space Invaders in C#
- Eric J. Smith's CodeSmith Utility
- Very comprehensive FAQ on the .NET Compact Framework available
- C# Splash Screen
- Questions about the C# Site
- C# Programmable Calculator
- Cool "Article" from Cory Smith up on the web...
- C# Bloggers Page Up...
- New C# Home Page Design Up on MSDN
- Hands On Labs
- PDC Sessions available as streaming audio with synchronized PPT and demos...
- C# Whidbey Sneak Preview doc up on MSDN
- Looking for a "Photo Blog"
- Ninja Gaiden
- Dolomite <> Dolemite
- SHAutoComplete
- IAutoComplete
- Desktop Backgrounds
- Scott Mitchell's Data Structure Article is finally up...
- Visual Basic RSS Feed should be a bit busier...
- Interop Article by Sam Gentile
- Burn CDs right from your .NET code...
- Looking for some Hands On Labs?
- Reading An Image from the web...
- Upcoming Chats
- The VS.NET Bootstrapper Workspace is starting to get busy
- CLR Profiler Available
- Is this just a technology thing...
- Longhorn Preview now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
- Slides, Slides, Slides
- ClickOnce and "locked down" systems
- Oh man... PAG just keeps producing those blocks!
- A new MSDN TV episode with Brad Abrams about WinFX has been posted
- New Generics Article by Juval Lowy
- Various PDC Related Diagrams Up on MSDN
- Digging out...
- Blogs on the PDC Central Site
- Books, Books, Books...
- Reading Blogs...
- My ClickOnce chapter is up on the web
- "New" PDC site is up
- Keynote Fun
- Happy to be in LA
- COM Port Programming in .NET
- Still in Seattle, but hopeful...
- Ok... so I'm in the airport, but not moving any closer to LA at this point
- If you are into code samples...
- In the airport... drinking coffee... paying for wireless
- Hmmm... I hadn't noticed that post
- C# Team section now up on the C# Developer Center
- Changes in GDN Workspaces
- I think I've found a music service I can use...
- Turns out I am going after all...
- New VB article up from a fellow 'weblogs' author...
- Pretty cool MSDN TV Topic up..
- New Dancers... but still no 'Master Chief'?
- Visual Studio .NET Bootstrapper Plug-In
- Hmm... interesting side affect of Google AdSense
- Ok, so *now* I'm loading up Halo on my PC
- Home Machine is up and "loaded for code..."
- Adhoc and Random
- So many things going on at one time
- Feeling the Cache Love
- I am definitely going to need more HD inputs on my TV
- URLScan and the VB Resource Kit
- Wonders of Windows Forms, and headshots of Chris Sells
- Generating INSERT statements
- Visual Basic Resource Kit Download Available
- Visual Basic Resource Kit
- Digital Destiny
- Single vs. Multi-File
- Anyone have time for a quick poll?
- Displaying RSS on my own site
- Great Quote from G. Andrew Duthie on Chris Sells Blog
- Hmmm.... and I thought ANTS was a profiling tool...
- Getting slightly caught up...
- Ugh.. I want to code...
- Some new MSDN links of note
- Ok, some PDC marketing I'm happy to participate in...
- Hey, my glasses made it onto a blog
- Hmm... maybe Chris Sells has a point, no more interviews at Microsoft
- Laziness .NET -- the Professional Edition
- New "Coding 4 Fun" article is up...
- Updating the Updater
- And now for the last...
- Finally got back to the article
- The article continued...
- Well, I'm not 100% sure I'll start writing my articles into the blog... but...
- Random Blog thought...
- New Blogs page on the MSDN Visual Basic Developer Center
- You learn something new everyday...
- "Letter from the Editor" on the MSDN Developer Centers
- Converting an Application to use the Application Updater Block from PAG
- Converting an Application to use the Application Updater Block from PAG
- Visual Basic Bloggers Revisited
- Visual Basic bloggers
- Retrieving File Icons for specific file types
- New Editor's Note (Letter from the Editor... whatever...) up on vbasic
- Everything you didn't need to know about me...
- New Column Is Up (Laziness .NET)
- In case you didn't notice... GotDotNet User Samples has RSS!!
- Multiple Methods for Auto-Updating, which to choose?
- Application Updater Block
- No Touch Deployment in Winnipeg
- Punitive User Interfaces
- Hmm... did we launch another Developer Center that I didn't know about?
- In case none of you web-heads have noticed....
- Better late than never... right?
- Dinner and Drinks with some local Bloggers
- Not about TechEd at all, it is about a fish
- 1st Day
- So I'm here, now what?
- MSDN Security Developer Center is up!
- .NET Show and VBTV are on the MSDN DVDs!
- Response to low MSDN pricing
- Creating a new account on blogger.com
- High-Powered MSFT Blog!
- Wow, leave Kent in front of his computer for a few hours...
- Need blogging solution for spouse
- Interest Trivia about Duncan...
- Words I didn't know existed...
- Releasing binaries for my samples
- Sure it is about Zip Compression, but it is also about a whole lot more...
- Pre-Mother's Day Sneaking Around
- Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET
- Very confusing discussions...
- Idiocy in the name of love...
- MSDN TV
- Wil discusses the emotions invoked by being a father… and he mentions tea!
- My Column Is Up!
- Leaving Las Vegas
- My Grand-Boss is Blogging, oh my!
- Some "slightly less than documented" APIs
- New Dev Centers Are Up!!!
- Exciting new Microsoft Insider Blog
- Using what you write
- Command Line Switch Parser
- Managed Wrapper for BITS
- Full MusicXP Source Posted to GDN
- MSDN TV now available offline!
- Certification doesn't prove you know everything, but it certainly helps....
- A little 'bit' more on Int32 vs Integer
- Int32 or Integer/int?
- It is a gradual process...
- I hate to get involved at all, but...
- One Step Closer to Releasing MusicXP Source
- First hint of what I've been working on for the last few months...
- This isn't exactly useful, but I find it cool
- My column went up early...
- First day and he has figured it out already....
- Macros in VS.NET
- Indicating Infinite Progress, or lack thereof
- I have to get one of these, and code against it!
- And speaking of Mike Harsh...
- Yet Another New Blogger!
- Sites in a box
- Joel's here!
- HREF EXEs are cool.
- Visual Basic .NET 2003 Language Changes
- IsNumeric, Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll, etc.
- Another little code snippet
- GotDotNet User Samples area gets a facelift
- Another MSDN TV episode!
- Coding and Going to the Grocery Store
- Hubzilla
- DateTimePicker and DBNull
- Grinding the Gears
- New Coding4Fun column is up...
- A Burning Desire
- Googlism
- Interesting phrase...
- There goes that column idea....
- A Blog? What was I thinking?